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Ernie Pyle’s “Story of G.I. Joe” (July 13, 1945)
Ernie Pyle was a journalist for the Scripps-Howard newspaper chain. Long before the term “embedded journalist” entered the national consciousness, Pyle traveled with servicemen, writing about the war...
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The Stranger (May 25, 1946)
The Stranger isn’t most people’s favorite Orson Welles film, and a lot of people even consider it his worst. (Welles did.) It’s the third film he directed, and as far as Oscar bait goes, it certainly...
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The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (April 25, 1947)
I love George Sanders. I don’t know what it is. I could give you a laundry list of attributes — his effortless charm, his ironic detachment, his pitch-perfect performances as cads and bounders — but...
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Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (Oct. 30, 1948)
Norman Foster’s Kiss the Blood Off My Hands begins with some onscreen text that could fit at the beginning of nearly every single post-war film noir: The aftermath of war is rubble — the rubble of...
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